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On pon, 2017-07-31 at 10:52 -0400, Alec Warner wrote: |
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> On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 9:05 PM, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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> > On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 3:44 PM, Alec Warner <antarus@g.o> wrote: |
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> > > |
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> > > On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 3:44 AM, Andreas K. Huettel < |
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> > dilfridge@g.o> |
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> > > wrote: |
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> > > > |
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> > > > Am Dienstag, 25. Juli 2017, 01:22:44 CEST schrieb Peter Stuge: |
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> > > > > |
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> > > > > I hold a perhaps radical view: I would like to simply remove stable. |
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> > > > > |
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> > > > > I continue to feel that maintaining two worlds (stable+unstable) |
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> > > > > carries with it an unneccessary cost. |
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> > > > > |
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> > > > That's not feasible. It would kill off any semi-professional or |
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> > > > professional |
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> > > > Gentoo use, where a minimum of stability is required. |
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> > > |
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> > > |
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> > > So my argument (for years) has been that this is the right thing all |
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> > along. |
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> > > |
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> > > If people want a stable Gentoo, fork it and maintain it downstream of the |
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> > > rambunctious rolling distro. |
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> > > |
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> > |
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> > What is the difference between forking the repository, and just |
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> > maintaining a keyword inside the same repository, besides the former |
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> > being easier to integrate into QA/etc? |
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> > |
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> > People who are interested in working on stable already do so, and |
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> > people who are not for the most part shouldn't be bothered by it. In |
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> > the cases where stable has caused issues with maintainers the council |
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> > has generally dropped arches from stable support so that repoman won't |
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> > complain when packages are removed. |
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> > |
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> Sorry, to be clear the conclusion I was hoping to draw is that one has 2 |
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> repos instead of 1. |
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> 1) Rolling. |
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> 2) Stable. |
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> Rolling is typical ~arch Gentoo. People in rolling can do whatever they |
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> want; they can't affect stable at all. |
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> Stable is an entirely separate repo, a fork, where CPVs are pulled from |
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> Rolling into Stable. If Stable wants to keep a gnarly old version of some |
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> package around; great! But the rolling people don't have to care. |
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I was considering this but it won't work for users who mix stable |
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and ~arch. While we don't officially support this, they're a significant |
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portion of our user base and they usually have good reasons for doing |
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that. |
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-- |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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